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Here’s an idea… Rather than the government mandating digital ID on all of us, we should be mandating digital ID on the government to monitor exactly where they spend our tax money and the meetings they have with corporate lobbyists. We don’t serve them. They serve us.

We have witnessed the worlds first livestreamed genocide and the only choice of Prime Minister we're allowed is someone who supports the country committing it. We are an occupied country.

@mum1nm0t1i0n @BenJamalpsc What are you?

There is a question often thrown at those who protest and march for the Palestinian people on the streets of London- Why do you care so much about a “ conflict” thousands of miles away? It is not a genuine question- It is an accusation built on the premiss that there must be a sinister motivation, rooted in hatred. There is an answer which speaks to the principle that lies at the heart of all internationalist solidarity- that justice has no borders- that an injury to anyone anywhere is an injury to everyone everywhere. It is an answer that is also a riposte to those organising what is a hate march tomorrow- the far right - who believe that what truly binds people is not a common humanity but the identifying markers of nationality, race, religion or ethnicity . But there is a second answer which Karma Nabulsi the Palestinian academic and activist always used to give to this question- “Because Palestinian history is British history.” Tomorrows march is both a protest and a commemoration. It commemorates the Nakba, the catastrophe enacted between 1947 and 1948, which saw the state of Israel established through a process of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians - Over 750k driven into exile including most of my extended family- over 500 Palestinians towns and villages wiped off the map. This great crime was the inevitable outcome of a Zionist project driven by the belief that the Jewish people had a right to colonise Palestine and establish their own state. This was a truth openly acknowledged by Jabotinsky – the Godfather of revisionist Zionism , the ideology, which ,through Likud, has dominated Israeli politics in the last 78 years. He once wrote “ it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting Palestine from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority". Such a project ,he knew , could only be enacted via the use of overwhelming force. But the Nakba which is protested tomorrow is not a moment of historical trauma but an ongoing process of enforcing a system of racist domination though ethnic cleansing, colonisation, dispossession, murder , torture, and now genocide. And the roots of all of this lie in the Balfour declaration , and the 28 years of British mandate during which the British state, accepting the racist logic of Zionism laid the pathway for the inevitable act of violent dispossession that is the Nakba . Remember Balfour’s words “Zionism , be it right or wrong, … is rooted in age long traditions…. In future hopes of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land” Never mind that when Balfour wrote those words , those 700k Arabs constituted 94% of the population. Not only has Britain never acknowledged its historical responsibilities, it has for 78 years, continued to be a willing partner in the enactment of Israel’s system of racist oppression, maintaining that active complicity even as the crime of apartheid descended into the crime of genocide. So those marching tomorrow do so because they understand this history .They march because they understand that opposition to the racism that will be exhibited on the Tommy Robinson march ,which threatens the future of marginalised communities in the Uk, demands opposition to all systems of racist oppression wherever they exist. Nelson Mandela understood this when he said that the freedom of the South African people from the chains of apartheid would be incomplete until Palestinians were also free. That is why people will chant as they march tomorrow – in our thousands and our millions we are all Palestinians. This is not a march of hate . It is a march in support of the principles that bind us all, rooted in a love of our common humanity.

@StephenCol9320 @BenJamalpsc There are some good, unbiased documentaries about Iran on YouTube. Might be worth you watching a few. Peter Santenello’s are quite good.

@BenJamalpsc There's a question often thrown. Why no protests for Women For Freedom in Iran? And -worse-why are there Iranian Regime flags with posters of the Ayatollah on some Palestinian marches. Marches all about justice freedom & equality? What's goin' on Ben?

@ahzoov @RichardAngwin Great reply! 🫶

@RichardAngwin No matter what you get rid of, it will always come back. Billionaires, dictators...they're just in the offing. To permanently get rid of those blood suckers, you have to rid the world of apathy. Once everyone cares, we'll work together. Cooperation is what moves us forward.

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.@misanharriman uses his voice to speak for millions of people facing injustice, inequality and oppression every day. And I mean every single day. Take two minutes to add your name to this complaint and let him know we all stand with him. Link: newscord.org/action/telegra…

Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB: ---- Have you found yourself in the hideous position of having a Reform councillor? Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve. Got rubbish piling up? Email them. Bus vanished from existence? Email them. Streetlights dead? Email them. Care package delayed? Email them. Pavement like the Somme? Email them. Send them in by the hundred. Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is. Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News. It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes. Welcome to local government. The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward. The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated. Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.

Here I explain what Josh Simons and the Labour Together project was really about. It's a story of deceit, surveillance and fraud. Now Andy Burnham is indebted to this cabal of villains: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-04-2…

Channel 4 exposed Eurovision's double standard. 'Five countries are boycotting because of Israel. Russia was banned for invading Ukraine. Israel is not banned. Protesters are being pulled from the arena. Politics is drowning out the music' Russia is unpopular enough to ban. Israel has enough Western backing to protect - even while committing genocide.

Wes Streeting had a once in a lifetime chance to reinstate the NHS as a FULLY PUBLIC SERVICE He squandered it, continuing with privatisation £1.6 billion was wasted on profits in the last 2 years according to @CHPIthinktank - enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses

Police in Copenhagen beat peaceful anti-genocide protesters with batons on Wednesday as they blocked the entrance to the headquarters of shipping company Maersk. The Danish firm is accused of complicity in the mass killing in Gaza by transporting weapons and other supplies to Israel’s military. Twenty activists from Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse – or the Green Youth Movement – were arrested and charged with trespassing, according to industry website Shipping Watch.

@g0ldf1nch @ValerieEBradley @_BoldPolitics I'm a district nurse, I still see homes like that, including carpet from the 60s & 70s and furnishings and wallpaper much older. Granted many of the homes have fallen into disrepair, but not all.

@ValerieEBradley @_BoldPolitics You are talking about furniture. I have furniture in my house handed down in my family from the late 1940s. It is the furnishings that are the give away. The condition of the furnishings. And the gas fire. I grew up with a gas fire like that. It was replaced in 1990s. It’s staged

Actual backstory 🧵 The elderly man whose home this was hadn't renovated - or even redecorated - for decades because he had been a long-term carer for his chronically ill wife (1/7)

🚨BREAKING: Israel Is Firing White Phosphorus Across Southern Lebanon

"It's a coup that's being mounted against Starmer, and he should know about them because he was there when the coup was mounted against me" 🤣 —Jeremy Corbyn

It's extraordinary that my daughter was acquitted on all charges after damaging drones in an Israeli-owned weapons factory, which she told the jury she was proud to do. And now she has a lot to say... 1/6 standard.co.uk/news/crime/gov…

She urged supporters to attend the June 12 sentencing for Head, Corner, Kamio and Rajwani, who were remanded into custody after being convicted. 6/6

🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuba is completely out of diesel and fuel oil Cuba has completely exhausted its diesel and fuel oil reserves, Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy announced Wednesday on state media, prompting protests across the capital on Wednesday evening. Some districts in the capital are without light for 20 to 22 hours a day, the minister added in his announcement. Neither Mexico nor Venezuela, once top suppliers, have sent fuel since President Trump’s January 2026 executive order threatening tariffs on any country shipping fuel to Cuba. The United Nations last week called the fuel blockade unlawful, saying it had obstructed “the Cuban people’s right to development while undermining their rights to food, education, health, and water and sanitation.”

The Israeli army issued forced displacement order for villages surrounding Tyre coinciding with the continuation of ceasefire negotiation talks in Washington. Forced displacement of civilian populations is a war crime. Almost all night last night I heard and saw violent Israeli shelling here in the western sector. Israeli bombings have already begun in other part of the region. Israeli media indicated that one of their soldiers had been killed this morning in south Lebanon.

Day 3 of Bolivia's general strike demanding the resignation of neoliberal President Rodrigo Paz. All major highways blocked by protesters. An indigenous long march is heading to the capital, as it passes through each town and village more people join.